Elizabeth Isidro

Elizabeth Isidro
Associate Professor of Literacy Studies
Director of the McGinnis Reading Center and Clinic
Location:
4608 Sangren Hall, Mail Stop 5258
Mailing address:
Department of Special Education and Literacy Studies
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5258 USA
Elizabeth Isidro
Education:
  • Ph.D., Texas Tech University
  • M.A., Texas Tech University
  • B.S., University of the Philippines
Bio:

Dr. Elizabeth Isidro obtained her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Language and Literacy from Texas Tech University. She also engaged in more advanced work in literacy curriculum design, practice-based teaching, and research in literacy teacher education as a post-doctoral research associate also at Texas Tech University. Here at WMU, she continues to advance her work through her teaching, research, and programming of the McGinnis Reading Center. She has published in different journals such as Language and Literacy, Reading Teacher, Reflective Practice, and Journal of Curriculum Studies Research. Her research embodies the following themes: 

· theory and practice of socially just literacy teaching 

· pre-service and in-service teacher development 

· literacy across the disciplines 

· multiliteracies for youth, families, and communities 

· children’s literature and reader response 

· critical and (de)colonizing ontoepistemologies